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The Row Boat"Had we but world enough, and time..." * The Staircase in Santa Fe3/04/2005 01:25:03When I was a Reasonable Person it seemed impossible to me that if miracles were true, standard, common sense folks would have no problem believing in them. Wouldn't they send such powerful ripples through history that we could not stand to question their truth? But what more could you want, really? Most people on earth follow a religion that was founded on a miracle and they live by that miracle every day. How else could the fact of a miracle manifest itself? Conversely, I wonder if it is possible to imagine a world without miracles, in which everything is entirely mundane. For the wild human mind, searching for primal connections and meanings, this might be impossible. As the critics of miracles are the first to say, it is more likely that things that appear to be miracles or coincidences do occur than if they didn't. What a miraculously badly-timed existence this would be if nothing ever seemed miraculous, always proceeding according to sober prediction. Perhaps the real modern miracle, so far as reasonable people are concerned, is that indeed so many people believe in the miraculous as do. Despite all the marvelous evidence to the contrary! Imagine. It seems incomprehensible. Observing this might be very much like one at Cana might have felt. Not so awash with constant wonder, actually. Yes, it is unlikely, even odd, but we go about our normal lives anyhow. We scratch an itch despite it. We'll tell a few people over time how strange it was and some will believe us and some will not. Time will dissolve it like time has dissolved the other miracles. Paradigm-shifts will make the fact of what we see every day seem inconceivable. Well, anyway. I am still waiting to have my socks knocked off. Start with the miraculous staircase. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
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